Thursday, July 24, 2014

2 killed in fresh fighting between rebels and the military in Bukidnon

From the Philippine News Agency (Jul 24): 2 killed in fresh fighting between rebels and the military in Bukidnon

An unidentified rebel and a government trooper were killed as fresh fighting between communist guerillas and the military took place Wednesday in the hinterlands of Impasug-ong, Bukidnon.

Pol. Inspector Joan Galvez, of the Bukidnon Provincial Police Comand, on Thursday identified the casualty from the military as Cpl. Rosendo Sagun, of the army’s 23rd Infantry Batallion of the army’s 403 Brigade based in Bukidnon.

He said that the armed encounter occurred in Kilometer 30, a hinterland village of Calabugao, part of the municipal town of Impasug-ong, Bukidnon.

The military was in hot pursuit of the armed communist rebels who attacked the SUMIFRU Pineapple Plantation in the village of Maynaga in Cabanglasan, Bukidnon Tuesday morning.

Galvez said that the rebels seized 1 K69 radio and damaged the company’s Boom Spray during the attack.

He said the withdrawing rebels also threw a grenade at the elite 104th Reconnaissance Division of the military in Sta.Felomina, Quezon, Bukidnon Tuesday afternoon.

In a statement, the South-Central Bukidnon Sub-regional Command of New People’s Army (NPA) owned the two separate attacks in Cabanglasan and Sta. Filomena, Quezon, Bukidnon on Tuesday.

Ariel Magbanuag, the NPA SCB Sub-regional Command spokesperson, said the attack was the third after the rebels carried out an attack on the Del Monte Pineapple Plantation in Sitio Kiantig, Brgy. San Jose, Quezon last week.

http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=2&sid=&nid=2&rid=665837

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